IN RE: McKinsey & Company, Inc., National Prescription Opiate Consultant Litigation

  1. July 12, 2021

    Meet JPML's Favorite Judge, Tasked With New Opioid MDL

    A new assignment by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has vaulted a California federal judge into solo first place as the nation's most prolific manager of MDLs — and into the legal limelight overseeing opioid crisis cases of virtually unmatched urgency.

  2. June 07, 2021

    JPML Sends McKinsey Opioid Cases To New MDL

    The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Monday created a new MDL in California federal court for a barrage of lawsuits over McKinsey & Co.'s role in prescription opioid marketing, keeping the cases out of the existing opioid MDL in Ohio federal court.

  3. May 27, 2021

    JPML Weighs New Opioid MDL As McKinsey Suits Surge

    New multidistrict litigation probably won't streamline dozens of cases accusing McKinsey & Co. of helping drugmakers aggressively market prescription opioids, but squeezing the cases into a long-running opioid MDL might be unfair, judges said Thursday.